LODGING LEADERS
095 | The Smartest Room with Tarun Patel
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Tarun S. Patel is a second generation hotelier and entrepreneur specializing in Hospitality Management and Development, Deal Structure, Finance and Accounting. He’s Principal of Pacific Hospitality Company, and Founder and CFO of Pracrea Inc, a Silicon Valley based startup offering software-as-a-service solutions used by commercial real estate brokers and owners to manage the sale of their listings and properties. Their solution, TheHotelInventory.com, provides a virtual meeting place for hotel buyers and sellers that helps hotel sellers and brokers market their properties, and hotel investors find their next investment.
Tarun earned a BS, Finance and Economics from San Diego State University.
In This Episode, Tarun Reveals
- His experience serving on the Board of Directors for AAHOA and the US Travel Association.
- The importance of getting involved at the local, state and federal level to proactively affect legislation, and some of the legislative issues surrounding the hospitality industry today.
- How the new administration could impact small business owners and the state of the Lodging Industry today.
- What The Hotel Inventory is, how it’s the strongest hotel real estate listing site on the web, and how they’ve gained massive marketshare in a few short years.
Resources & Links
Tarun Patel
- tspatel@pracrea.com
- @TarunPatelSJC
- Office Direct: 408-777-6700
Pracrea, Inc.
- TheHotelInventory.com
- Pracrea on LinkedIn
- info@pracrea.com
1735 North First Street, Ste. 247
San Jose, California 95112
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